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[Android Apps and Games] DoubleA.at:
Originally Posted by DoubleA.at

First i have to say thanks for all the great answers, even to sometimes not so great questions :D

Your support is way better than most of the paid companies are eager to give.

Can i somehow help to narrow my problem?

I tried default lock, lock with pattern and lock with code.

I use proximity sensor (not the one that clears notifications), notification delay (tried 1 to 300 secs here) and most of the power saving features.

I would happily provide you with log files, but i don't see a feature to turn them on (except for watched apps) ;)

So additionally i put the default calls app into the watched apps list, turned logging on and saw the call notification 2 times per missed call. Seems to be 200% reliable, too ... :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] DoubleA.at:
Additional Info:

There is another app on my SGS2 that could mess with the lock screen: Elixir (market.android.com/details?id=bt.android.elixir&feature=search_result)

It definitely can toggle lock screen on/off with a widget. Of course i had the lock switched on while testing :-)

But maybe Elixir does some hidden magic in the background to confuse NoLED ...
[Android Apps and Games] willstay:
Yes that is one solution. When I am not nearby my phone, I always keep it face down and proximity sensor would keep notification/touch input disabled. Just wanted to share this snap I took - the proximity sensor actually glows faint red when active. I had to use my DSLR, highest ISO, 2 sec exposure to capture it :)
[Android Apps and Games] mobidzid:
http://www.devasque.com/noled/FAQ.php#5
[Android Apps and Games] isotoper:
Hello,

Great app !!

May I ask from where is the Clock widget, on the Galaxy S, which is in the youtube movie ?

I know it's from Galaxy S2, but I didn't managed to install in on Galaxy S.

2. Is there any workaround to make Noled work with NoLock ?

Thanks !!
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
I really am not sure why this is happening. The app seems to be doing its thing if you do see the Calls entry(ies) in the Log under Advanced. The problem seems to be with the actual notification trigger. The notification trigger relies on a lockscreen API so that might have been messed up ? Do you know if anyone else is having a problem with NoLED and that particular ROM ?

I'm really without any ideas at this point. It should work, it does on my build device(s) and on the emulator.

yea, I saw it too on my device the other day ;)

1. I dunno coz I'm not the video's author.

2. nope.
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
Just wanted to follow up and let you know that I tried to replicate this issue without success. I also double checked the code and this shouldn't be happening.

On my device:

Blink enabled. Received gtalk: screen blinks. plugged in to the charger: it stops blinking.

After unplugging the charger, the notifications are automatically dismissed. I received another gtalk message and sure enough, it blinked again.

Perhaps you can provide a step by step guide to replicate the issue ?
[Android Apps and Games] DoubleA.at:
As i mentioned before, my last guess before i desperately "update" to another ROM is "Elixir" (market.android.com/details?id=bt.android.elixir&feature=search_result )

Elixir definitely can toggle lock screen on/off with a widget. Of course i had the lock switched on while testing :-)

But maybe Elixir does some hidden magic in the background to confuse NoLED ...

It's improperly forward, but could i dare to ask you to check the compatibility with Elixir? :-)
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
I didn't realize it was your answer. I thought someone else suggested Elixir as a possible cause.

Best way to find out is to uninstall it and see if NoLED gets to work again. I can't really test compatibility with apps due to the sheer number of them but I do welcome reports about their compatibility :) If Elixir is indeed the culprit, you'll need to contact them and see why their 'off' toggle isn't functioning correctly.
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
Some of you asked about the specifics of the new Gmail update that is coming to the Market soon which will most definitely break NoLED's gmail integration. So I'm attaching the email I got:
[Android Apps and Games] DoubleA.at:
Yup, was afraid of exactly that answer :-)

Cause configuring Elixir is quite time consuming and i don't know if i lose all my configs with uninstall.

Most likely i'll try my luck with the ROM upgrade first and if that doesn't help, it's Elixir as my last resort ...
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
Are you rooted ? you can always use titanium backup to backup the data before uninstalling. Then you can easily just restore it and all its settings back.
[Android Apps and Games] darthslash:
I have a Galaxy S running Gingerbread. Reduced the problem by clearing notification with the back button instead of the home button. But the oncoming SMS delete still happens once in a while
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
Are you using stock messaging app ? I'm thinking it could be a bug with 3rd party sms apps that disable the stock messaging app and don't like (don't correctly handle) pressing the Home button.
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
4.4.2

4.4.2 is out on OP and market. Added backup and restore and cleaned up the few bugs that the latest beta had. As always, change log on the 2nd post.

Thanks a lot for those who tried the beta and sent in the crash report.
[Android Apps and Games] geokilla:
You realize you can change the amount of SMS held in your phone right? Default is 200. Hacked mms.apk can hold over 9000 SMS.

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[Android Apps and Games] beutelfuchs:
Is it possible to deactivate the display notification? I rather would just want to have audble feedback. Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] Matrix44:
I installed the new version 4.4.2 from the Market. When I want to set the "Battery saving features", the app always crashes. I have sent you the crash report via mail. The previous version worked fine.

I tested the app and I found out that it happens only when I change language (Slovak, Czech...). When I set English as the language, everything is OK.

Please take a look at it.

Nice day,

Matrix44
[Android Apps and Games] E-riko:
lol wtf?

if you want only audio, than dont use NoLED at all...

if you got an sms, you will hear you got an sms (when you

if you got a call, you will hear you got a call

if you got a mail, you will hear you got a mail

in all those cases you can set up a notification tone for when you missed it, done!

of course, if you dont use noled you wont SEE you missed something, but on the moment you miss it, you will at least hear it.

that said, you also miss the purpose of a notification application like NoLED, being that it SHOWS you that you missed something some time ago...

But your question doenst make sence at all in this topic, NoLED is about visability, and you talk about audio...
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
you can use blink to keep the screen off while keeping audio/vibrate notifications working. just set blink's off time to something large (e.g. 3000 seconds).

Note to self: I should probably put this in the FAQ given how many times I'm repeating this answer.

Great ! and here I was wondering how the hell to replicate the issue that you, and some 20+ others (so far) are having with 4.4.2. I'll patch it up first thing in the morning tomorrow and give an updated release. Thanks for the heads up ;)
[Android Apps and Games] beutelfuchs:
No, I don't hear every notification the time it is played. In opposite to you I have more things to do instead sitting silently in front of my phone and wonder when it may beep.

Actually the purpose is to notify about missed events.

You life inside a wonderfull simple, pink colored world. lucky guy.
[Android Apps and Games] E-riko:
eat me, nerd
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
Could you please elaborate ? were you able to at least install it ? or did it not run when you installed it ? If you couldn't install it, try uninstalling 0.3 and then installing 0.4.

Thanks for your input, is the glitch specific to 0.4 ? or was it always that way even with 0.3 ?
[Android Apps and Games] HardCorePawn:
Ok... running 0.4 on a Hong Kong purchased SGS GT-I9000, running "rooted" JM2...

and now watching a trio of red, green & blue dots dancing around the corner of my screen... weeeeeeeeeeeeeee :D

A couple of things of note:

- The first time it triggered (I sent myself a SMS and sent the machine to sleep before it arrived) the green dot showed up... but the capacitive lights didn't turn off? Then when I generated a missed call, after the screen went back to sleep, green dot, no capacitive lights, then blue dot showed up...

I have been unable to replicate this since... (have sent myself several SMS's, gmail's and missed calls)... so I'm thinking it may have been un-related to NoLED, or was just a once off...

- I also had an instance where a missed called never triggered a dot, but when I pushed the power button, the screen "flashed", went black again and then the dot showed up :confused:

- Also, I have noticed that sometimes it can take a while (anywhere from 15 seconds to over a minute!) for the dots to show up after the screen turns off...

EDIT: I don't seem to be getting gmail notifications in vibrate mode :(
[Android Apps and Games] tschmidt84:
installation worked after uninstalling 0.3 first. thanks! haven't received any sms/call yet to test functionality tho.
[Android Apps and Games] jsmith8858:
AT&T Captivate here, .4 works well for me so far. The blue dot is very faint for missed calls and hard to notice, perhaps at some point when the kinks are all worked out you could put together a user simple interface that allows users to do things like set the color of the dots, turn the service on/off, etc. So far, though, so good for me!

It's silly how many people are asking for things like icons and pictures and so on for the notifications, completely missing the point -- this is just supposed to be replacing a LED! More dots turned on == more power used. Let's keep this simple!
[Android Apps and Games] opensourcefan:
I agree, simple = professional.
[Android Apps and Games] Passat80:
No LED 0.4

I downloaded 0.3 earlier and it worked great.....So I couldn't wait to get the improved 0.4 version with the colors and work while in silent and vibrate option added.Since the last update I rooted my Vibrant..All is working great so far bur the NO LED 0.4 update doesn't work now.It says "the content is not supported in this phone" hmmm some help pls!!??

update.......I'm sorry my bad....should read more next time...Definitely have to uninstall the previous version before I could install this one.It was giving me option to replace it but,when I press OK it stops working.....minor detail :)
[Android Apps and Games] gr4v3r:
Not just you I had the same fully charged issue.
[Android Apps and Games] swehes:
Trouble shooting.

Actually what happens is that the NoLED app puts a layer of dark screen with a little dot on it. When you click on the Power Button you put it into the default black screensaver mode. If you click on the power button again it will bring you back to the other black screen with the red LED light. At that point you can press home button and you are back in business. (It happened to me and I did it a few times to figure it out. ) :)
[Android Apps and Games] dizzer83:
I just bought the Samsung Vibrant from T-Mobile, I was really excited when i heard of this app, sadly when i search for it in the Android market, It says that no such app exists... can someone tell me how they got the app? (If i have to download it on my computer and transfer, please explain how, thank you)
[Android Apps and Games] calibx:
Works great on my Samsung Galaxy S with JP3. Thanks a lot!
[Android Apps and Games] Gnopps:
Silent mode

Thanks for the effort! I'm not using this app yet though as my phone is almost always on silent mode with vibration only. Thus I'd like to see it work also in such cases. Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] erunamor:
Coudn't it be possible to allow users to choose between the dots in the amoled display and just illuminate the buttons of the bottom? I mean, I think many of us just need to know that there's some notification unread/missed calls, and it would be enough if the button went on, or blinking. And it could be possible to asign each button to one notification (ex: left for missed calls and right for the rest notifications). And maintaining the amoled off.

hope my english is enough to understand me XD

cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
Unfortunately this is not possible yet. There is another thread dedicated to getting this "button approach" to work.
[Android Apps and Games] chewiee:
check the first post in the thread. you need to enable non-market apps and install this one from a file and NOT market. ( DL is in the first post)
[Android Apps and Games] ipeench:
i dont have much time to read all this before i get yelled at! but i was wondering if there is a reason why it takes a few for the green dot to kick in when a textmessage is received?

also had to say that this completes the phone i thank you very much for it ... i owe you a beer for sure!
[Android Apps and Games] tonycapp23:
It doesn't seem to work when the phone is on silent. Green dot works great when ringer on, but when on silent.. nothing. Anyone else having this same issue, or is this the way the app is supposed to work?
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
it takes exactly 10 seconds for the green or blue dot to show from the time the event was triggered. the reason for this is to make sure that you actually missed the event and did not activate the screen immediately to check. when you receive an SMS or a missed call, the screen turns on. 10 seconds guarantee that the screen turns off before the actual notification is displayed.

for the beer, information is on the first page. I appreciate all donations so thank u. :)
[Android Apps and Games] DaPhantom:
Downloaded and installed this App today.

I have to say it works like a charm.

Missed calls, SMS and emails all come through with great notification.

Im impressed.. Great work.
[Android Apps and Games] zezebrabra:
Hello madmack, wonderful work! Great! You work on the following:

1. Adding support for Gmail notifications even in silent/vibrate mode. Will probably have a different color for these types of notifications.

Really? That would be very important for me. If the notifications work even in silent/vibrate mode, I will spend money. Well done, thumbs up!!!!
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
I'm working on this step next :) Should be back to coding by tomorrow. I will perhaps release it in the market when this is completed.
[Android Apps and Games] Nephilim55:
NoLED does not function on my SGS on 2.3.4 when the App 'unlock with wifi free' is installed and activ.
[Android Apps and Games] tight686:
I love you!
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
I'm in the process of releasing a minor update 4.4.2.1 (fixes FCs with some non-English Locales).

NoLED requires a lock screen. Its a known issue :)

Love you too !
[Android Apps and Games] tight686:
*Should* NoLED and BLN Control play nice together?
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
I don't really know. If BLN continues to work even after the screen turns on, then yes.
[Android Apps and Games] tight686:
Nice answer lol. But no, they work together for about a second and then NoLED continues solo.
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
Yea, it makes sense for BLN to disable itself when the screen turns on. You don't want these guys blinking while you're using your phone.
[Android Apps and Games] tight686:
I see now. Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] miro666:
By me NoLED dont work with BLN...Even if BLN is disabled... :(

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] :
NoLED on S-LCD screen

Thanks for NoLED, I almost went crazy when I realized I bought a phone with no LED.

As far as I know, white pixels take up less battery to be displayed on an S-LCD screen and black pixels take up less battery to be displayed by an AMOLED screen.

I have a Nexus S with S-LCD screen (yep, they come with those too). According to the above, I should set NoLED to display a white background to get better battery life on my specific model. Am I getting this right? Just wanted to make sure :D
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
I don't claim to be an expert in these screens' technology :rolleyes: but if that's the case, then yes. It would be better to have a white background in your case. If you look at the Blink option, you'll see a little feature made specially for you :)
[Android Apps and Games] tight686:
I'm experimenting with certain timeouts to see if it might help. I have NoLED set to timeout after 5 min. The idea is afterwards when the screen turns off BLN would jump in.

I'll report back if it works.
[Android Apps and Games] miro666:
Thanks m8, I appreciate your efforts and I hope your success in this research.

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] tight686:
Success!

Setting the timeout for NoLED at 5 min and BLN enabled once NoLED times out the screen turned on and then went dark with the backlights kicking in.

Now I'm not certain if the BLN timeout begins as soon as the screen turns off so just make sure your BLN timeout is longer than NoLEDs.

Edit: On my Samsung Infuse the proximity sensor option no worky. :(
[Android Apps and Games] AsperAstrum:
Hi! Thank you for the great app. I do have one question though:

I am using a Galaxy S2. Say I get a Gmail notification and then check my e-mail through a different source then the phone (i.e. my computer). The phone reacts to this for coming on and showing the lock screen for 5 seconds which has no use and uses unneccessary battery. Is there any way to correct this issue?

Thanks a lot
[Android Apps and Games] tangcla:
No - an S-LCD uses the same amount of power regardless of colour, whereas the AMOLED uses less power if the image is darker (and more power if brighter).

So on your S-LCD, you can use any background you wish.
[Android Apps and Games] jedi5diah:
screen dimming/brightness is not working after latest update -_- .

thanks for your hardwork!
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
Yes, NoLED dismisses the notifications automatically for Gmail when they're read anywhere else.

The lockscreen should display but that should happen for a very brief time until the phone shuts the screen off again. Its exactly as if you would press the back key while NoLED is displaying a notification; it'll show the lock screen and eventually time out.

That's a feature that we're about to lose with the new Gmail app update that should be hitting the Market anytime soon now.

What value did you set it to ? and what phone do you have ?
[Android Apps and Games] jedi5diah:
Galaxy S - tweaky final rom 2.3.4 Galaxian ee 1.7 Kernel

set to 30. it dimmed for half a sec and flicked back to full brightness.

tried other values also same result to full brightness.

thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] SobaniForce:
Samsung Galaxy S2 read message lag

First of all, thanks for the app! I love the idea behind it, and I can appreciate how much work it would have been to find workarounds to get the app functioning.

Just a few points:

There's about a 5 second delay if when I have a text message on my phone with noled enabled and i perform the following actions:

Phone is in standby, then I receive a text message and after my delay time Noled displays my message icon and the time.

I press the home key to clear noled and get to the lock screen

I then slide the message symbol on the lock screen to the left (the orange slider) to read the message

The phone then unlocks and shows the home screen for about 5 seconds. The phone is still responsive, as in I can open my app drawer, slide home screens etc. But after a 5 second delay my new message will always open. I can of course open the messaging app directly once back at the home screen but this defeats the purpose of using the new message slider.

NOTE: Does not occur if I use the soft back key to return to the lock screen while noled is displaying, and does not occur if noled is disabled. Have restarted and reinstalled and couldn't find any personal settings which might cause this.

Should I just use the soft key? If there is a fix for this please let me know.

Also I haven't found a definitive answer on here, but when noled is displaying and my phone is locked, does setcpu detect this as 'screen off'? my thoughts would be no.

Finally, I wish there was a way to make icons/dots/time that appear when noled is active not-overlap. I find it doesn't look the best when I can't read the time behind a message icon. Perhaps if one could arrange where the icons would appear relative to the time or each other? or perhaps choose a random position sequentially while checking that no overlapping occurs.
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
I just double checked the code and the debug messages and everything should be working just fine. What currently happens is that NoLED would adjust the brightness level after about a second or two from the time the notification screen shows up. So if it starts dim, and then it becomes bright, a possible explanation would be that the initial dim level was your actual auto-brightness setting and 30% was higher than that therefore it looked like your screen was on full brightness mode after about a sec or two.

Try reducing this value and see if it helps. NoLED's previous "Dim screen" option used to have a value of 1% to give you an idea :)

Thanks for your clarity and well written bug report.

NoLED never liked getting dismissed with the Home key. So far, I haven't found a proper API that will enable NoLED to distinguish between the user pressing on the Home key and when the app goes into the background due to, for example, getting a phone call. I tried several calls to make sure the home button press is detected by NoLED but to no avail. Android likes to keep strong control on that button so it doesn't allow devs to tamper with its functionality. After all, its the button that gets you out of a frozen app so the APIs are linked to the actual OS framework.

The back key works because NoLED's notification screen is actually getting destroyed and not sent to the background. This is probably why the screen lock slider works just fine when you press the back key, but not when you press the Home key. I don't know of any workarounds, but I'll continue to look into it. So far I haven't seen anything that was meant to 'trap' that key and all the workarounds that I found work on some devices, and are broken on others.

The overlap issue is in my to-do list. So far I've only come up with ways to fix this that involve a lot of extra calculations per new moving interval (default at 3 seconds) which I'd rather stay away from given how simple the app is so I'd like to keep it that way. If I find a 'smart' way to do it one day, I'll make sure it gets implemented :) So far I thought of making the icons stick together and move uniformly in columns from the top to the bottom moving to the right as they progress. This wouldn't take a lot of calculations but I'm somehow not too happy about its idea. If you guys have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

SetCPU should definitely be showing that time as screen on time if it works properly. Have no doubt that your screen is fully functional when NoLED is displaying notifications on the screen.
[Android Apps and Games] SobaniForce:
Thanks so much for the quick response! This app has a great dev. :-)
[Android Apps and Games] eirrom:
I have an EVO 4D and I'm having 2 issues with the update. Love the app but...

1) The SMS icon no longer shows up when I get a SMS. Not sure why but getting nothing.

2) Sometimes when I get an icon to appear on my screen, I go to turn on the phone using the lighted buttons and the screen will not always kick on. It sometimes goes black and then I have to use the power button to get the screen back or I cover the proximity sensor, then screen will then show the icon and the lighted buttons will respond. What I'm trying to say is the lighted buttons do not always respond to my touch so then the screen will go dark and I then have to get the screen to light up.

Please help. Thanks.